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NANOG Program Committee

The NANOG Program Committee solicits talks, works with potential speakers to refine presentations, and reviews proposals for technical accuracy and relevance presented at NANOG meetings to the NANOG audience. The NANOG Program Committee reviews presentation abstracts and selects talks based on applicability to backbone engineering and timeliness of the topic. The group comprises operators, researchers, and industry leaders, appointed by the Board of Directors. You can reach the PC at [email protected].

Current members are:

Chair

Term ends: 2020-02-28

Benson SchliesserVolta Networks

Vice Chair

Term ends: 2020-02-28

Vincent CelindroJuniper Networks

Secretary

Term ends: 2021-02-28

Steve FeldmanCBS Interactive

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Steve Feldman has been involved in computer networking since 1978. He has worked in software development and network engineering for Tymnet and MFS/Worldcom, where he was the principal architect for the MAE Internet exchanges. Since then, he has gone on to work for several startups and acted as an independent consultant, and is now a network engineer for CBS Interactive (formerly CNET Networks). He was also chair of the NANOG Program Committee from 2005 through 2007. Steve received B.S. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley.

Hackathon Committee

Term ends: 2020-02-28

Michael CostelloNetflix

NANOG On The Road Committee

Term ends: 2020-02-28

Edward WinsteadInternet Systems Consortium

Member

Term ends: 2021-02-28

Jeff BartigInternet 2

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Jeff Bartig is a Senior Network Engineer and Architect in the WAN Engineering group at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Jeff’s focus since he joined the group in 1995 has been the University’s external connectivity and backbone engineering for WiscNet, Wisconsin’s research and education network. Jeff served as WiscNet’s lead engineer and peering coordinator until earlier this year. Jeff was involved with the creation of Wisconsin’s first peering exchange, MadIX.

Member

Term ends: 2021-02-28

Tom BeecherYahoo/Verizon Media Group

Member

Term ends: 2020-02-28

Jason BotheInvesco

Member

Term ends: 2020-02-28

Michaela CliffordFacebook

Member

Term ends: 2021-02-28

Adam DavenportGTT Communications

Member

Term ends: 2020-02-28

Cat GurinskyApple

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Cat Gurinsky is a network engineer at Apple working on global large scale datacenter deployments. In previous network engineering roles at Valparaiso University, Switch & Data, and Equinix she has worked on everything from enterprise and wireless deployments to internet exchanges and data centers. She first started working in network engineering in 2007 and began attending NANOG in 2009. Cat has previously served NANOG as part of the Development Committee from 2011-2012. Cat has a passion for BGP, Python, network tools, automation and anything that can help make life easier in large scale networks.

Member

Term ends: 2021-02-28

Greg HankinsNokia

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Greg Hankins has been attending NANOG since 1998, first as a network
operator and now as a hardware vendor. He also attends APRICOT, Euro-IX,
various Peering Forums, RIPE, and regional operator conferences where
he frequently speaks on network technology and operational topics.
Greg currently works as a Senior Product Line Manager for Nokia.
In this role he works with service providers and Internet exchanges around
the world as a product specialist, and he’s an active member of the
network operator and peering community. His combined operator, customer,
and vendor background give him a unique global view on current issues,
topics and trends in the network operator community. In a past life,
he organized four Annual Linux Showcase (ALS) conferences, hosted NANOG
21, served on the 1998 FREENIX and 1999 O'Reilly Open Source conference
program committees, and served on the Linux Journal magazine advisory board.
Term ends October 2013.

Member

Term ends: 2020-02-28

Tom KacprzynskiVidScale

Member

Term ends: 2021-02-28

Alex LatzkoServerCentral Turingroup

Member

Term ends: 2021-02-28

Hossein LotfiTesuto

Member

Term ends: 2021-02-28

Steve MeuseKentik

Member

Term ends: 2020-02-28

Ognian MitevCharter Communications

Member

Term ends: 2021-02-28

Nagendra Kumar NainarCisco

Member

Term ends: 2020-02-28

Chris PennisiGlobal Cloud Xchange

Member

Term ends: 2020-02-28

Rekha RawatCisco

Member

Term ends: 2021-02-28

Brad RaymoStackPath

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Brad Raymo is currently the Director of Peering Strategy at StackPath where he is primarily focused on Peering and Interconnection Strategy. Prior to this, Brad was at Yahoo where he was responsible for their Global Interconnection Strategy. His very first NANOG was NANOG52 in Denver and from that meeting he has tried to better the community. He previously served on the Nanog Communications Committee and has been a member of the Program Committee since 2016.

Member

Term ends: 2021-02-28

Matt RingelAkamai Technologies

Member

Term ends: 2021-02-28

Kat RonayMicrosoft

Member

Term ends: 2020-02-28

Steven SchechterAkamai Technolgies Inc.

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Steven Schecter is a Senior Network Architect at Akamai Technolgies Inc. Over the past 15 years, Steven has held engineering and architecture roles at Cablevision, Net Access, AboveNet, and Globix. He has extensive experience in ISP/access, Data Center, Eyeball networks, and CDNs. He most recently spent the past 6 years at Cablevision as a Senior Engineer within their strategy and technology (Office of the CTO) group. Steven began attending NANOG meetings in 1999.